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of white in his face. His knee action was excessively 
high; he carried his head high, and, altogether, he 
showed so much dash and power and spirit, and 
seemed to go so fast, —he could in fact trot a 2.40 
gait, —that he presented a very formidable appear- 
ance. It is said that nobody ever looked behind and 
saw Wild Tiger approaching, without turning aside 
and giving him the road. Nevertheless, at a gait of 
six or seven miles an hour, Wild Tiger was temperate 
enough to be driven by a woman; but when his blood 
was up, it took a strong man to control him. One 
winter day, Squire Toothaker drove this horse from 
Phillips to Augusta, fifty-two miles, in five and one 
half hours. The snow-drifts near Phillips were so 
deep that it took him one hour to go the first five 
miles, so that he drove the remaining forty-seven 
miles in four hours and a half. Wild Tiger pulled 
all the way, and came out fresh the next morning. 
Now these successes in breeding were not acciden- 
tal, for, as we have seen, in three separate cases, a 
family of extraordinary merit sprang from the union 
of the Eaton horse with a quick and high-stepping 
Morgan mare. So, also, as I have stated, a similar 
cross between the Hambletonian stock and Morgan 
mares has resulted equally well. Why, then, do we 
not continue to raise such incomparable hackneys as 
Shepherd F. Knapp, and such tough, speedy, and 
beautiful cobs as the Flying Eatons? The answer 
must be that our farmers are absorbed in the pur- 
suit of that ignis fatuus, as it commonly proves, the 
remunerative trotter. 
I have spoken of the Flying Eatons as cobs, but per- 
haps incorrectly. What is a cob? The term is so 
